[ExI] Weird!? - He's not on Facebook

[Adrian Tymes]

On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 3:08 PM, William Flynn Wallace
<foozler83 at gmail.com> wrote:
> OK, that's the old way.  I do not undo anything when I reply.  Now when I
> click on Reply, I get a blank page.

Do you see a "..." at the bottom of the message space, after you click
Reply but before you type anything?  If so, click that: that's where
GMail hides the message you're replying to, and clicking the "..."
shows the message with the reply header and quoting all set up.

The intention is, by default you don't need to copy and paste the
message at all.  Anyone not on GMail will just see what you're
replying to, and you can see it too with a single click of the "..."
(or multiple, if there's more than one "...").  Though the result is
"top quoting" style, which is sometimes useful but "bottom quoting"
(like I'm doing with this message) is preferred.

I'm pretty sure this is the case for you, because the following
appeared in your message - perhaps you just weren't aware of it.  (If
just a "..." appears below this for you, click it.)

> On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 4:46 PM, Dave Sill <sparge at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 5:24 PM, William Flynn Wallace
>> <foozler83 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> What Dave said in his post, but just to point out: the very fact that you
>>> see a need to type "dave sill" to clarify your quote means that you are
>>> quoting wrong.   adrian
>>>
>>> Now tell me - what's wrong with that?
>>
>>
>> It's manual, so you can get it wrong--like the Spike quote you attributed
>> to me. The attribution is at the end of the quote, so one has to read the
>> whole thing to see that it's a quote. It's not a quoting format used by
>> anyone else here.
>>
>>>
>>> I need to attribute the quote to the person who wrote it, eh?  And I do
>>> not understand 'quoting wrong'.
>>
>>
>> Like I said, it's not a question or right or wrong.
>>
>>>
>>> Punctuation? Maybe I am not doing it the Wiki way, but most of us having
>>> been doing it this way as long as I have been in this group.  Maybe I am
>>> being dense here.
>>
>>
>> Maybe you are. If you really think other people here are doing that,
>> you're wrong. What you're doing sort of works, but it isn't ideal, which is
>> why I tried to take the time to explain why and how to do it right. If you
>> just don't care or prefer your way or whatever, then fine, continue doing
>> what you're doing. But if you really can't see the differences between your
>> way and the standard way, well, then you are being dense.
>>
>> You use Gmail, so it's automatically using the standard quoting method.
>> You're having to manual undo that and redo it your way. For what benefit?
>>
>> -Dave
>>
>>
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